May Sarton Quotes

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.

I need to just be Iskra, and I've got to believe in me, or else no one will.

It's very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you're a good person when the people who know you best don't.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.